A part of the Hole, indeed, contained so much public spirit and private virtue that not even this strong leverage could move it to good fellowship with a tainted accuser.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And by carefully giving way to the inclination of the leaves, he did find it, or within a page or two, quite near enough to satisfy Lady Bertram, who assured him, as soon as he mentioned the name of Cardinal Wolsey, that he had got the very speech.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

I want to drink deep of life; I have no talent whatever, and my part is only ten lines, but it is immeasurably finer and nobler than pouring out tea five times a day and watching to see that the cook does not eat the sugar left over.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The poor thing understands you, therefore I need not explain that she loves you.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

It was not easy to sleep, lying, as I did, with my head directly against the bows, which might be dashed in by an island of ice, brought down by the very next sea that struck her.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

I did not expect to see Leah again, and I felt enraged with her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The tribes did not employ the same language nor carry on a common government.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

He did not expect to stay longer in Canada than the fall, but, whilst he did stay, he was to consider our house his home.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

’Tis not easy to say little on so important a subject, but thus much may suffice for the present purpose.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

The door opened, and she saw him, the old Lassiter, slow, easy, gentle, cool, yet not exactly the same Lassiter.
— from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

"There was no escape there," said Lauener, in describing the incident to me subsequently, "but I saw a possible rescue at the other side, so I sprang to the right, forcibly swinging my companion round; but in doing so, the bâton tripped me up; we both fell, and rolled rapidly over each other down the incline.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

Now I begin to understand why you have become so prodigal with the blacking; for some time I have had the intention of reproaching you with your shoes—our finances are not equal to such lustre."
— from A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick

The pathetic dependence of the child nourishes equally the strong love which protects, and the grateful love which clings.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick

We were, however, near enough to see large sheets of water over the mangrove belt that lined the shore, in which many openings were observed that communicated with it.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Philip Parker King

Lightfoot knew now that this hunter had patience and perseverance and had not yet given up hope of getting near enough to shoot Lightfoot.
— from Lightfoot the Deer by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

The inhabitants of the Lucayas , an unsuspicious and credulous people, did not escape the snares laid for them.
— from History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

Theoretically it may, in a more perfect state of development than now exists, throw some light on the route and order of American migrations, possibly on the question of origin; thus far, however, ethnological studies have been practically fruitless.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Millie showed her dimples and her pretty teeth, smiling at Alf and at me, too, but I saw no evidence that she loved him.
— from The Jucklins: A Novel by Opie Percival Read